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If these words are familiar to you, I’ll bet you’re smiling. If you’ve never seen them before, you may think I’m pretentious and annoying. Or maybe you feel bad about the gaps in your education.

We use words to try to express ourselves, but what if there's really no word for something you really want to say? Maggie Rowe and Emily Garces mind foreign languages for words of which we might make ...